The 350 Washington Civic Action Team (CAT) supports legislative advocacy actions across a wide range of climate and justice policy areas. We work through education and action to show the clear connections between the climate crisis and the overlapping systems of extraction and oppression in each policy area. We are a mighty crew of volunteers collaborating across Washington to coordinate our grassroots legislative campaign each year. 

The 2026 session ran from January – March and it was our 10th year doing legislative advocacy with the 350 WA Civic Action Team campaign. Once again we mobilized hundreds of people across Washington to take advocacy actions on sound and just climate policy. This year was a short legislative session, only 60 days. With state revenue down for a second year in a row the theme for this session was, again, budget cuts and belt tightening. 

This year’s top line news item? The Millionaires’ Tax! But that still has court challenges and maybe a repeal initiative ahead. One big difference from last year – this session Climate Commitment Act money was diverted to cover budget gaps like never before. Next year’s session is supposed to pay it back – but that could just be an empty promise.

The CAT campaign tracked over 250 bills and several budget provisos. Like every session, a bunch of them fell by the wayside, but more than 30 bills we supported passed and we stopped more than a dozen that were no good. And, next year all bills will get new numbers! We’ll be supporting more than 30 good policy ideas that didn’t make it over the finish line this session.

Check out the full list of our work and the bills that passed this year here.